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...Critics reminisce about past glories and compliment the singer on her youthful beauty. Audiences have been outwardly enthusiastic, but in the lobby, complaints are heard: "I'm disappointed. We work harder than she does." Occasionally, with one ringing B, Callas can still excite concertgoers to ecstasy, casting a spell that momentarily deafens listeners to her vocal flaws. But in truth the voice is sadly diminished, and what remains is more a performer's than a musician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Callas Comes Back | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...America's "energy-policy task force," representing the interests of 22 consumer-oriented groups. His total budget may reach $85,000 a year-a pittance beside the American Petroleum Institute's $16.7 million for 1974. "If it's a David v. Goliath situation," he says, "spell David with a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: One Man Anti-Oil Lobby | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...aura of the office still subdues people, still reduces the critical faculties of those who come into the epicenter. In these days, about the only people allowed the special view of the President are the ones who already are Nixon boosters. They are caught in the presidential spell, which is part awe and part fear, and the realities of Nixon and his life in the White House that might give him a third dimension are never carried out of the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Trying to Grasp the Real Nixon | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...audience, Richardson said that a president "can be held responsible for the acts of subordinates where he has created an attitude or has used language or given general directives that would have reasonably led them to believe they were doing what he wanted, even if he didn't spell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Richardson Says Watergate Has Positive Effects | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

There was little doubt that the report contains the grand jury's critical assessment of Nixon's role in the conspiracy to conceal the origins of the wiretapping and burglary of Democratic headquarters in June 1972. The report may also spell out the grand jury's reasons, presumably on constitutional grounds, for not now indicting the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Seven Charged, a Report and a Briefcase | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

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